Tag: Boston Marathon

Marathons shouldn’t discriminate against trans-women

Photo courtesy of @EntirelyAmelia, Twitter Recently, the magazine Canadian Running published a piece highlighting the achievements of three transgender women who managed to qualify for the women’s division of this year’s Boston Marathon, Stevie Romer of Woodstock, Illinois, Amelia Gapin of Jersey City, New Jersey and Grace Fisher of Hancock, Maryland. […]

Student: ‘Killing Tsarnaev Will Not Bring Back the People Lost’

Photo by Steve Fallon Since the April 15, 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, the most deadly terrorist attack on United States soil since 9/11, which killed three and wounded 264, much anger and rage has been directed toward the surviving perpetrator of the crime, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev — and justifiably so.  Tamerlan […]